Knockdown wardrobe.



PATENTED AUG 18. 1908.

Nr SWANSON.

KNOGKDOWN WARDROBE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 7, 1907. RENEWEDIJUNE 18, 1908.

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witnesses anvc'ufoz No. 896,671. PATENTED AUG. 18 1908.

N. SWANSON.

KNOCKDOWN WARDROBE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7,1907. RENEWED JUNE 18, 1908.

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' UNITED STATEEPATENT OFFICE,

NILS SWANSON, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO GRAND RAPIDS SHOW CASE COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

KNOCKDOWN WARDIkOBE,

Patented.- Aug. 1a, 1908.

Application filed May 7, 1907, Serial No. 372,358 Renewed June 18, 1908. Serial No. 439,232.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NILS SWANSON, a citizen of the United States'of America, residing at .Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knockdown Wardrobes; andI do hereby declare the'following to'be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in knockdown wardrobes, and its-object is to provide means whereby a so-called disappearmg door can be used in connection with a number 0t superposed series of garment supporting devie'es'and to )rovide the same with various new and usefu features hereinafter more fully described and particularly vided with siderabhets 2 and a rear rabbet 3 to receive the sides and back of the, defvice; 4 is a sill strip for the door to close against and to shut out the dust; 5 and (i represel'lt the respective sides of the device; 7 represents the back; H an auxiliary side having panels, cornice and a base to form a linish to the end of the structure. The sides 5 and 6 preferably consist of open frames merely, and

a series of these wardrobes may be arranged consecutively with the liuishing ends 8 at the Eachsection is provided with a detachable top 9 provided with a groove l0'to slidably receive the door and supporting stile therefor, which door and stile. are slidable in this groove at the top and supported thereby. 'lhese'to portions are also provided with perforated lilgs l-I'whereby they may be secured to each other in series by bolts passing through said lugs. In the under side of the top are openings or holes 12 to receive dowel pins 13 on the upper edges of the frames 5 and 6. On each right hand frame 6 of each cmnpartmcnt and near the bottom thereof is a track 14 on ,which the stile I5 is carried, the stile being supported in vertical position by a rod 16 'and the track engaged by wheels 17 and 18 to carry the stile thereon. The door19 is hinged to the stile and carried thereby. Any convenient garment supports (not shown) may be placed in the top 9, and a furtherseries-of supports may be placed intermediate;

therto and base, for which latter purpose I provide a post 20 secured to the base and ex tending upward therefrom near the door, and a transverse bar 21 extends across the front, and is secured at one end to the side of the case by means of a perforated flange 22, the bar being attached at the other end to the post 20 by means of a screw or bolt 23.

By the construction shown, it'will be observed that this device is adapted to contain two superimposed series of garment supports without interfering with the move-- ments of the door, and can also be assembled as a single compartment, or in a series of such compartments, and that the device may be easily and readily assembled, or taken apart as occasion may arise.

Obvious y my device can be used in a wardrobe havim a solid case instead of knockdown. I, however, prefer the knockdown structure as more convenient tostore and ship.

What I claim is: l; [n a knockdown Wardrobe, the combination of a base, end frames, a back, and a top detachably secured to each other, a stile detachably su )ported on the inner side of oncof the end rames and adapted to traverse the same, a doorl in e'd to the stile and supported thereby a1 .l a iso adapted to be drawn out beyond the end frame, a post sup orted on the base and spaced apart from t e end frame that supports the stile to permit the doorto pass between the said post and frame,

and a hanger bar detachably secured to the top of thepost and to the opposite frame at its respective ends' 2. In a wardrobe, the combmatlon of a case having a base, a to and frames, and a back, secured to each ot ier, and also having a stile movably supported on the inner side of one end and adapted to traverse the same, and a door lunged to the stile and adapted to be drawn out of'tlle case and turned to close the front thereof, a post detachably supported u on the base and s aced apart from the end sup orting the sti e to permit the door to pass etween the post and said end, and a hanger bar detachably attached to the post at one end and to the opposite end of the case at the other end.

NILS sWANsoN.

Witnesses: I

- LUTHER V. MOULTON, GEORGIANA OHAOE. 

